[wideawake]

If the earliest the parchment could be from is 650AD, how could it be "thousands of years" old.

Reporters should not be expected to be epigraphers, but they should be expected to be proficient in 4th grade math.

[Resettozero]

If the earliest the parchment could be from is 650AD, how could it be "thousands of years" old. Reporters should not be expected to be epigraphers, but they should be expected to be proficient in 4th grade math.

They are too accustomed to assigning old age to objects. I'm surprised it wasn't said to be 411 million years old.